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QUAKE, v.i.

1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Heb. 12.

2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. Neh. 1.

3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.

QUAKE, v.t. To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]

QUAKE, n. A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.



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QUAKE, v.i.

1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Heb. 12.

2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. Neh. 1.

3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.

QUAKE, v.t. To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]

QUAKE, n. A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.


QUAKE, n.

A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation. – Suckling.


QUAKE, v.i. [Sax. cwacian; G. quackeln; Eth. ሀወከ hwyka, to shake, to agitate.]

  1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. – Heb. xii.
  2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. – Neh. i.
  3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as, the quaking mud. – Pope.

QUAKE, v.t.

To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.] – Shak.


Quake
  1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

    "Quaking for dread." Chaucer.

    She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.

  2. To cause to quake.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  3. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
  4. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.

    " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.
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Quake

QUAKE, verb intransitive

1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Hebrews 12:21.

2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake Nahum 1:5.

3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.

QUAKE, verb transitive To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]

QUAKE, noun A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

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